It turns out, you can be pretty snarky in 140 characters. I've been on Twitter for a couple of years now (follow me at twitter.com/dbernstein), and use it for a variety of purposes: breaking bits of political news; passing along news or commentary of interest; linking to my articles and blog posts; offering brief observations and commentary; interacting with readers and political junkies; and of course, cracking humorous one-liners.

My rule of thumb for candidates accused of campaign
shenanigans/illegalities would be this: Publicly say that you take this sort of
thing very seriously, that you certainly hope and expect that nobody on
your staff behaved badly, but you're going to take a few days to look
into it to satisfy yourself, and the public, that nothing inappropriate
took place.

Thank goodness Paul Loscocco finally did something interesting enough to write about, so I can have fun with his name. (Side note: If the Flaherty/Yoon "ticket" was called Floon, then the independent governor ticket was "Cacocco".)

What he did, of course, was humiliate his running-mate Tim Cahill by bailing on him a month before election day to endorse another candidate -- specifically, the one he originally wanted to be running-mate for, but who turned him away: Charlie Baker.

Boston PhoenixMy Year In TweetsPublished 12/28/2010 by David S. Bernstein
It turns out, you can be pretty snarky in 140 characters. I've been on Twitter for a couple of years now (follow me at twitter.com/dbernstein),...

Boston PhoenixThe Accusations FlyPublished 10/14/2010 by David S. Bernstein
My rule of thumb for candidates accused of campaign shenanigans/illegalities would be this: Publicly say that you take this sort of thing very seriously, that...